WHY 

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One  Hundred  Pictured  Reasons 
WHY  WE  ARE  A  T  WAR 

By 

W.  A.  ROGERS 


CUPPLES  &  LEON  COMPANY 

NEW  YORK. 


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Annex 


LIST  OF  CARTOONS 


NUMBER 

1.  Verdict — "Carelessness  on  the  part  of  the  deceased." 

2.  The  first  great  German  "U"  Boat  Victory. 

3.  Modern  German  Gothic  Art. 

4.  The  Announcement. 

5.  A    SILENT    COMPANY — Yet    its   voice    is    heard    above    the    roar   of 

Cannon. 

6.  Those  "cannon  on  the  foi-ward  deck." 

7.  Here  are  "the  facts." 

8.  He  had  expected  to  find  the  President  alone. 

9.  "We  Germans  Icve  the  Belgians,  who  were  forced  into  the  war." 

— Dr.  Demberg. 

1  0.  The  Crushing  of  Belgium. 

I  I.  Invasion  of  Belgium  by  the  "Uncultured." 

12.  GERMAN  RELIGIOUS  ART Intended  for  a  Cathedral  window. 

1  3.  Christmas  Night. 

I  4.  i->.  moving  picture. 

I  5.  There  is  no  American  blood  on  John  Bull's  hands, 

i  6.  Going  to  "throw^  a  scare"  into  Uncle  Sam. 

1  7.  "THOSE  FLIPPANT  AMERICANS,   who  were  drowned   on   the  Lusi- 
tania." — Cologne  Gazette. 

18.  "Gott  Mit  Uns" — and  Allah  too! 

19.  Swarming. 

20.  "Here  3  a  present  from  the  Kaiser,  my  pretty  maid." 

21.  "Seized  for  Military  purposes." 

22.  Those  wfho  are  decorated. 

23.  It  w^as  a  glorious  Victory. 

24.  One    of    those    touch-ng    pictures    of    a    German    soldier    feeding    little 

Belgium. 

25.  "Don't  you  see  the  war  is  nearly  over? — Forget  the  Lusitanial" 

26.  Activities    of    a    German  diplomatist  in  America. 

27.  Activities   of    an  American  diplomatist  in  Europe. 

28.  A  good  deal  like  the  "Goose-Step.  " 

29.  The  sad  case  of  Mr.  Dumba. 

30.  Just  whose  pet  snake  is  this? 

31.  Is  God  still  with  us? 

32.  Once  more  the  Olive  Branch. 

33.  Assurances  by  the  waste-basket  full. 

34.  "Yes,  father.  I  remember  you  said  the  virar  would  end  in  October." 

35.  Spraddled. 

36.  The  Austrians  did  it. 

3  7.  Recently  on  exhibition  at  Cooper  Union. 

38.  The  New  Intensive  Kultur. 

39.  "Watch  your  step!  " 

40.  Whether  to  get  angry  or  to  laugh! 

41.  A   message  on   preparedness — at   the  psychological   moment. 

42.  A  little  May  party  interferes  with   the  Christmas  spirit. 

43.  The  Ambulance  Driver. 

44.  "For  ways  that  are  dark.  " 

45.  "It  s  got  to  be  uprooted.  " 

46.  The    Persia  Torpedoed. 

47.  The  Barbary  Pirates: 

We  cleaned  them  out   1  1  0  years  ago,  and  we  may  have  to  do 
it  again. 

48.  Yes,   of  course,   "Turkey  did  it." 

49.  Washington's  most  industrious  special  correspondent. 

50.  A  Silent   Protest. 


LIST  OF  CARTOONS 


NUMHt.'. 

51.  His  Private  graveyard. 

52.  Safety  first. 

53.  Let  the  decoration  fit  the  crime. 

54.  Like  sheep  to  the  slaughter. 

55.  Von  Tirpitz. 

56.  On  the  sinking  of  a  hospital  ship. 

57.  "Pirates  and  Privateers  no  longer  exist." — Von  Jagow. 

58.  "Well,  Count,  do  you  claim  it?" 

59.  The  Kaiser's  Colonial  Secretary  for  North  America. 

60.  "Please  observe,  Mr.  Ambassador,  that  you  are  pretty  close  to  the  edge 

yourself.' 

61.  "From  now  on  we  will  make  no  forward  movement." 

62.  "Admiral  of  the  Atlantic." 

63.  Assorted  cargo  for  the  return  trip  of  the  Deutschland. 

64.  Triumph  of  the  Hohenzollerns  at  Verdun. 

65.  Those  disappointing  Gennan-Americans. 

66.  Preparing  a  few  more  answers  to  our  protests. 

67.  Is  anybody  being  fooled  by  this? 

68.  A  Prussian  offer  of  Peace. 

69.  No,  this  is  not  Eliza  crossing  on  the  ice! 

70.  Maybe  somebody  wants  to  buy  a  little  suckling  pig,  eh? 
7  I .  Bringing  the  flag  up  to  date ! 

72.  A  survival  of  the  dark  ages. 

73.  Germany. 

74.  Under  their  true  flag. 

75.  Wrathful  waiting. 

76.  THE  ONLY  ANSWER: 

Kaiser:      "One  day  in  the  vv^eek  you   may  go   to   Falmouth." 
Uncle  Sam:       "Seven  days  in  the  week  you  may  go  to 1  " 

77.  I'm  here,   Mr.   President,   close  behind  you. 

78.  Another  case  of  wiping  hands  on  the  American  flag. 

79.  For  homeless  Belgium. 

80.  "Shame only  American  sailors!     Not  a  woman  or  child  in  the  lot." 

8L  Something  to  remember  after  the  War. 

82.  The  new  recruit. 

83.  It  is  to  laugh. 

84.  Not  all  is  dark. 

85.  "We  are  now  getting  the  enemy  out  of  their  trenches." — German  report. 

86.  "Papa,  here  comes  the  light  that  killed  Uncle  Nick." 

87.  The  Junker  must  go. 

88.  "Come  avay;  our  music  iss  not  for  Barbarians." 

89.  The  Piffle  steams  under  orders  from  Wilhelmstrasse. 

90.  THE  HONEYMOON  IS  OVER. 

"He  gave  me  a  black  eye  at  Carnegie  Hall." 

91.  A  good  recruiting  sergeant  for  Uncle  Sam. 

92.  Will  it  succeed? 

93.  "Your  mother,  your  wife,  your  child  may  be  next!" 

94.  Still     "luring  t'.iem  on." 

95.  Mobilized. 

96.  The  way  to  do  it. 

97.  Rehearsing  their  swan  song. 

98.  Hold   Fast,   Everybody! 

99.  This  is  their  emblem. 
100.  To  France! 


INTRODUCTION 

EACH  government  engaged  in  the  European    War   has   issued    a    White,    Green.    Blue    or 
Yellow  Book,  explaining  the  causes  which  led  to  its  entry  into  the  great  conflict. 
These  books  are  all  interesting,  and  are   full    of   valuable   documentary   information; 
but,  if  the  busy  people  of  America  are  to  understand  the  reasons  for  their  own  partici- 
pation in  the  war,   some  shorter  cut  to  the  desired  end  must  ^e  devised. 

We,  therefore,  offer  a  BLACK  AND  WHITE  BOOK,  in  which  our  nation's  reasons  for 
going  to  war  are  set  forth  in  pictures,  a  universal  language  w^hich  can  be  read  at  a  glance  by 
any  one  who  has  eyes  to  see. 

On  August  1st,  1914,  we  were  at  peace  with  all  the  world.  We  were  bound  by  ties  of 
blood  to  every  race  on  earth. 

Particularly  close  and  intimate  were  our  relations  with  the  German  people,  whom  we 
welcomed  to  our  shores  as  among  our  most  desirable  citizens. 

Then,    far  av^^ay   from  us,    apart   from   our   interests    or    concerns like    a    tragedy    being 

played  on  the  other  side  of  the  footlights — broke  the  frightful  war  of   1914.     We  looked  on 
fascinated,  but  not  convinced  of  the  reality  of  its  cruelty. 

For  a  little  over  eight  months  we  watched  it.  when,  on  April  22nd,   19  15,  there  appeared 
in  the  New  York  papers  an  advertisement  stating  that  the  great  passenger  ship  "LUSITANIA 
would  sail  on  the  7th  of  May  for  Live-pool. 

In  the  next  column,  in  equally  conspicuous  type,  appeared  a  sinister  warning  to  Ameri- 
cans, telling  them  to  keep  off  the  seas  at  peril  of  their  lives.  This  was  signed,  "IMPERIAL 
GERMAN  EMBASSY,  Washington,  D.  C." 

On  May  7th  came  the  fulfilment  of  the  threat,  and  we  awoke  to  the  fact  that  we  were 
not  an  audience  looking  at  a  tragedy,  but  the  victims  of  the  tragedy  itself. 

Not  until  then  was  it  brought  home  to  1:3  that  our  good  German  friends,  whom  we 
thought  we  knew  so  well,  had  been  inoculated  with  the  virus  of  a  Junker  madness,  and  that 
we  were  dealing  with  a  people  who  had  cast  from  them  every  restraint  of  fair  fighting  and 
had  become  the  outlaw  nation  of  the  world. 

In  the  following  pictures  the  .Artist  has  attempted  to  show  "Why  we  are  at  war." 


— W.  A.  ROGERS. 


WITH    Junker    thoroughness,    Dr.    Bernhard 
Dernberg  had  been  sent  here  to  suggest  ex- 
cuses for  the  brutal  assassination  of  Belgium. 


Verdict — "'Carelessness  on  the  part  of  the  deceased. 


THE  first  woman  to  fall  a  victim  to  the  "U" 
boat  piracy  Avas  a  stewardess  on  an  English 
merchant  ship  sunk  without  warning  in    1914. 


The  first  great  German  "U"  boat  Victory. 

C2] 


THE  Rheims  Cathedral  belonged  to  the  world. 
TTie  product  of  hundreds  of  years  of  conse- 
crated labor,  its  destruction  by  a  nation  devoted  to 
"Kultur"  is  one  of  the  primary  reasons  why  w^e  are 
at  w^ar. 


Modern  German  Gothic   Art. 

[3] 


THE  blackest  count  in  the  indictment  against 
Germany  is  foreshadov^ed  in  the  w^arning  by 
the  Imperial  German  Embassy  at  Washington  to 
all  Americans,  of  the  crime  which  was  to  follow 
on  May  7th,   1915. 


The  Announcement. 

[1] 


ON  May  7th,  1915,  by  order  of  the  Imperial 
German  Government,  a  "U"  boat  torpedoed 
the  great  ship  Lusitania  without  \varning,  drovv^n- 
ing  over  1,200  passengers.  A  sea  crime  unequaled 
by  any  pirate  know^n  to  history. 


N-0 .  7^'32.^'^'^^ 


A  SILENT  COMPANY — Yet  its  voice  is  heard  above  the  roar  of 
Cannon. 

[5] 


IMMEDIATELY  after  the  sinking  of  the  Lusi- 
tania,  hired  perjurers  swore  that  the  ship  carried 
guns  on  her  forward  deck  w^hen  she  sailed  from  the 
port  of  New^  York. 


Those   "cannon  on  the   forward  deck." 


[6J 


GERMANY  with  brazen  stupidity  insisted  on 
being  told  the  facts — facts  which  she  knew^ 
in  far  greater  detail  than  did  the  Government  of 
the  United  States. 


^w-^ 


Here  are   "the   facts. 

[7] 


A  FEW  days  after  the  crime  of  May   7th,   the 
Count  Von  Bernstorff  requested  an  audience 
with  the  President. 

He  understood  he  was  to  see  the  President  alone. 


He  had  expected  to  find  the  President  alone. 

[8] 


DR.  BERNHARD  DERNBERG  became  ex- 
ceedingly tiresome  with  his  hypocritical 
professions  of  affection  for  the  Belgians.  His  pro- 
paganda was  effective  but  not  in  the  way  he  in- 
tended. 


••We  Germans  love  the   Belgians,   who  were   forced  into  the  war." 

— Dr.  Dernberg. 


[»l 


••k* 


•^^ 


IF  the  Crown  Prince  Frederick  Wilhelm  really 
said  what  he  is  credited  with:  "This  is  the 
most  stupid,  senseless  and  unnecessary  w^ar  of 
modern  times,"  he  accurately  described  his  father's 
masterpiece. 


The  Crushing  of  Belgium. 

[101 


IN  the  early  months  of  the  war  the  plain  people 
of  the  United  States  invaded  Belgium.      This 
lack  of  "Kultur  '  was  not  criticised  by  the  Belgians. 


Invasion  of   Belgium   by   the    "Uncultured. 

tiiJ 


IN  the  autumn  of  1914  the  German  Government 
issued  a  poster  representing  a  42  c.  m.  shell  on 
which  vv^as  piously  inscribed,  "Mit  Gott  fur  Konig 
und  Vaterland." 


GERMAN 


RELIGIOUS   ART-lntended   for  a   Cathedral   window. 


[12] 


IT  is  a  singular  fact,  attested  by  many  photo- 
graphs, that  in  the  battered  interiors  of  a  num- 
ber of  Cathedrals  within  the  war  zone,  figures  of 
Christ,  unharmed,  still  hold  their  places. 


'?>-V<  ;  ''■''^-^■, 


Christmas  Night. 

[18] 


OFFICIAL  Germany  has  reported  that  the 
busy  "U"  boat  Commander  sometimes  de- 
sists from  firing  on  life  boats  long  enough  to  reel 
off  a  moving  picture  of  his  drow^ning  victims. 


A  moving  picture. 

[14] 


A  STRONG  effort  was  being  made  in  May, 
1915,  to  persuade  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment that  England  was  equally  guilty  w^ith  Ger- 
many in  ignoring  our  rights  at  sea. 


There  is  no  American  blood  on  John  Bull's  hands. 


[161 


THE  German  dearly  loves  a  masquerade.  Mr. 
Bartholdt  was  parading  the  "German  Vote" 
in  Congress  in  January,  1915,  with  the  idea  of 
"Throwing  a  scare  into  Uncle  Sam.  " 


Going  to   "throw  a  scare"   into   Uncle  Sam. 


[16] 


THE  semi-official  Cologne  Gazette  added  insult 
to  injury  when  it  characterized  the  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  American  men,  w^omen  and 
children  lost  on  the  "Lusitania,  "  as  "Those  Flippant 
Americans." 


•THOSE   FLIPPANT   AMERICANS,    who   were   drowned   on    the 
Lusitania." — Cologne  Gazette. 


[17] 


THE    Kaiser    invited    the    "unspeakable   Turk" 
to  help  subjugate  the  barbarians  of  England, 
France  and  Italy. 


"Gott  Mit  Uns" — and  Allah  too! 

[IS] 


LITTLE  children  playing  on  the  quiet  greens  of 
peaceful  English  villages  seemed  to  be  the 
favorite  targets  of  the  Zeppelin  fleet. 


^^^^.^ 


^litefciS.^^^- 


r^*^ 


"Here's  a  present  from  the   Kaiser,   my  pretty  little  maid." 

[20] 


THE  hosts  of  "Kultur"  seemed  to  take  particu- 
lar  delight   in   the   destruction   of  the   monu- 
ments of  Gothic  grandeur  in  Belgium  and  France, 


"Seized  for  Military  purposes. 


As  the  war  went  on,  the  heroism  and  devotion 
of  the  Red  Cross  nurse  seemed  to  shine  out 
with  a  lustre  which  quite  ecHpsed  the  ghtter  of 
miUtary  decorations. 


Those  who  are  decorated. 


[22] 


HEROIC  Belgium,   crushed  beneath  the  gross 
bulk   of  bloated   Junkerdom,    still   held   his 
sword  in  hand,  ready  to  strike  again  for  freedom. 


It  was  a  glorious  Victory. 


GERMAN  soldiers  whose  hands  were  red  with 
the  blood  of  Belgian  mothers,  posed  for 
official  photographs  to  be  used  for  American  propa- 
ganda, show^ing  them  feeding  little  Belgian  children. 


One  of   those   louciiing  pictures  of   a  German 
Belgium. 

[24] 


soldier    feeding   little 


AFTER  the  campaigns  of  Lemberg  and 
Przemysl,  the  Kaiser  intimated  to  Washington 
that  the  War  was  about  over;  and  it  vv^ould  be  well, 
in  the  interests  of  peace,  to  FORGET  THE 
"LUSITANIA." 


"Don't  you  see  the  war  is  nearly  over? — Forget   the  Lusitania!* 

[25] 


COUNT  Von  BernstorfF  continued  to  "play 
horse"  with  Uncle  Sam,  while  Dumba,  Von 
Papen  and  Boy-Ed  looked  on  with  ill-concealed 
contempt  at  "the  idiotic  Yankees." 


'■■:^ 


/^->-'--^;^f' 


Activities  of  a  German   diplomatist  in  America. 

[26] 


IN  contrast  to  the  violation  of  our  hospitality  by 
Counts  Von  Bernstorff  and  Dumba  in  America, 
Brand  Whitlock,  our  ambassador  in  Belgium,  spent 
his  time  in  relieving  the  distress  in  that  distracted 
country. 


Activities  of  an  American  diplomatist  in  Europe. 

[27] 


MR.  BRYAN,  in  the  disguise  of  a  pacifist,  was 
consciously  or  unconsciously  playing  the 
role  assigned  him  by  the  Imperial  German  Em- 
bassy at  Washington, 


A  good  deal  like  the  '■Goose-Step. 

[28] 


AMBASSADOR  DUMBA,  having  accumulated 
sufficient  rope,  hanged  himself  at  last.  His 
hat  as  -well  as  his  passports  -were  handed  him  by 
the  President. 


^^I'lffl)  II  II  I'  '■"■•[ 


The  sad  case  of  Mr.  Dumba. 

[29] 


ONE  bomb  plot  succeeded  another;  leaving  a 
slimy  trail  that  always  led  back  to  the  Ger- 
man Embassy  at  Washington. 


s^^ 


7f 


Just  whose  pet  snake  is  this? 

[301 


BEFORE  a  wrecked  Cathedral  window  in 
France,  from  which  the  Mother  and  Child  still 
looked  down  in  silent  protest,  a  young  German  re- 
cruit might  well  ask,  "Is  God  still  wdth  us?" 


Is  God  still  with  us? 

[31] 


IN  September,  1915,  the  Count  Von  BernstorfF 
extended  the  ohve  branch  to  the  Government 
of  the  United  States,  while  Von  Tirpitz  backed 
him  up  with  a  gun. 


Once  more  the  Olive  Branch. 

[32] 


VON  BETHMANN-HOLLWEG  was  urged  by 
the  Germ"an  Embassy  in  Washington  to  patch 
up  any  old  assurances  and  send  them  over  as  Uncle 
Sam  was  becoming  extremely  restless. 


Assurances  by  the  waste-basket   full. 

[33] 


CERTAIN  that  Verdun  would  fall,  the  Kaiser 
had  predicted  that  the  war  would  end  in 
October,  1915.  As  September  closed,  the  Crown 
Prince's  army  was  being  shot  to  pieces. 


'Yes,  father,  I  remember  you  said  the  war  would  end  in  October." 

[34] 


IT    looked    as    though    the    German    Army    was 
spread    over    too    much    territory — faced    too 
many  fronts  to  be  effective! 


Spraddled. 

[:!51 


rr^HE  "Ancona"  was  sunk  with  great  loss  of  life, 
A  and  the  German  Government  immediately 
claimed  that  an  Austrian  "U"  boat  was  respon- 
sible, their  attitude  being  that  any  story  was  good 
enough  for  "those  idiotic  Yankees." 


The  Austrians  did  it. 

[363 


IN  the  autumn  of  1915,  "The  Friends  of  Peace" 
hung  their  white  robes  over  plots  of  assassi- 
nation, arson,  piracy  and  the  destruction  of  ships 
and  munition  plants. 


'N-i 


rK^^T 


Recently  on  exhibition  at  Cooper  Union. 

[37] 


UNDER  OUR  FEET  the  Prussian  spy  system 
was  working  day  and  night.  It  w^as  hard  to 
take  a  step  in  Washington  without  sticking  your 
foot  on  a  spiked  helmet. 


The  New  Intensive  Kultur. 

[38] 


THE  people  of  the  United  States  were  beginning 
to  think  we  had  had  enough  of  German  ag- 
gression, and  it  w^as  felt  that  a  strpng  stand  must 
be  made  for  the  national  dignity  and  honor. 


"Watch  your  step!' 

[39] 


IN  November,  1915,  Mr.  Henry  Ford  had  an  idea 
"wished  on  him"  by  an  Austrian  lady  who  was 
lecturing  in  this  country.  She  succeeded  in  making 
a  spectacle  of  him,  at  which  Uncle  Sam  was  uncer- 
tain whether  to  laugh  or  weep. 


Whether  to   get   angry  or   to   laugh! 

HO] 


WHEN  the  country,  in  December,  1915,  was 
at  the  height  of  distraction,  with  plots 
against  its  peace  and  security  being  carried  out  in 
every  direction,  President  Wilson  came  out  w^ith 
a  message  on  Preparedness  for  War. 


A  message  on  preparedness — at   the  psychological   moment. 

[41] 


IMMEDIATELY  before  Christmas  the  German 
Governmeni;  once  more  sent  us  assurances  of 
her  high  regard  and  friendship,  meanwhile  blowing 
up  a  few^  ships  at  sea  and  munition  plants  on  land. 


A  little  May  party  interferes  with  the  Christmas  spirit. 


[42] 


MANY  young  Americans  were  at  the  front, 
driving  their  ambulances  into  the  hne  of 
fire.  Even  Christmas  night  found  therrr  abroad  on 
their  errands  of  mercy. 


The  Ambulance  Driver. 

[43] 


WITH  one  hand  passing  out  checks  to  Von 
Papen  to  pay  for  dynamite,  and  the  other 
carrying  assurances  to  the  White  House  of  Ger- 
many's good  faith  and  friendship,  Gount  Von 
Bernstorff  was  fairly  busy. 


"For  ways   that  are  dark." 

[44] 


TREASONABLE    plots    were    becoming    more 
and  more  unbearable.      It  was  thought  that 
the  breaking  point  w^as  very  near. 


.^■ 


"It's  got  to  be  uprooted. 

[-15] 


THE  U.  S.  Consul  to  Aden,  travelling  on  the 
business  of  his  government,  vv^as  the  victim  of 
a  "U"  boat  attack  in  the  Mediterranean.  This  oc- 
curred very  near  the  spot  vv^here  w^e  drove  the  Bar- 
bary  pirates  from  the  seas  a  hundred  and  ten  years 
ago. 


THE  CONSUL'S  STORY 

AS  TOLDTOT+tE  JLITTLt  LUSrTAN/M:  C-HIUDREN. 


The   Persia   Torpedoed. 

[46] 


THE  expedition  in  which  the  U.  S.  Marines  dis- 
tinguished themselves  one  hundred  and  ten 
years  ago  vv^as  brought  to  mind  by  the  piracy  of 
1916. 


The  Barbary  Pirates — We  cleaned  them  out 
may  have  to  do  it  again. 


1  I  0  years  ago  and  we 


[47] 


WITH  characteristic  effrontery  Germany  and 
Austria  disclaimed  responsibility  for  the 
death  of  our  consul  to  Aden,  blaming  it  on  the 
Turks. 


Yes,  of  course,  "Turkey  did  it.' 

[48] 


IN  Feburary,  1916,  the  newspaper  offices  were 
being  bombarded  with  stories  from  "a  source 
near  the  German  Embassy." — "What  Mr.  Lansing 
thinks,"  "Washington  agrees  with  BerHn,"  "What 
the  President  beheves,"  etc.,  etc. 


Washington's    most    industrious    special    correspondent. 

[49] 


IN  the  Place  d'lena  in  Paris  stands  a  statue  of 
Washington.  Within  sight  of  this  monument 
an  old  man  and  a  little  child  were  killed,  the  only 
victims  of  an  air  raid  by  German  "Taubes.  " 


A  Silent  Protest. 

[BO] 


VON  BERNSTORFF,  hoping  that  the  "Lusi- 
tania"  v^as  buried  forever,  was  busy  with  as- 
surances of  regret.  His  principal  hope  being  that 
she  might  "Rest  in  Peace." 


His   Private   graveyard. 

[51] 


MR.  BRYAN,  to  the  disgust  of  all  decent 
Americans,  made  a  plea  to  his  countrymen 
to  bow  to  the  will  of  Germany  and  keep  off  the 
seas  entirely. 


Safety  first. 

[52] 


IT  was  asserted  and  has  never  been  denied,  by 
the  German  Government,  that  the  Kaiser  deco- 
rated the  commander  of  the  "U"  boat  which  sank 
the  Lusitania. 


Let  the  decoration  fit  the  crime. 


[53] 


\7ERDUN  had  become  a  slaughter  house.  To 
save  the  tottering  prestige  of  the  Crown 
Prince  Frederick  Wilhelm,  whole  German  bat- 
talions w^ere  sacrificed  in  vain  efforts  to  break 
down  the  French  defense. 


Like  sheep  to  the  slaughter. 

[54] 


VON  TIRPITZ  was  said  to  have  expressed  deep 
sorrow  for  the  w^omen  and  children  he  had 
been  compelled  to  kill.  (As  well,  perhaps,  as  for 
those  whom  he  was  to  kill  on  the  morrow.) 


OK.,  cuot  IS  int ,     ■t/vt'Tirate/criecL^ 
'  "Tlty  diiXu  '  5     -{rte^v  fi>^U  Sore, 
cAtuL  Son-ouj,  Itlctx  a.  risiaa  "ttcLt; 
Droivas   all  lUt    \oi)S   oyuart-." 

a. 

J\n(i.  tOCouir  a.<.  ^Oix  mau   dititv 
Tlvts    driDU/niarf     ckildruv  Iry lfis_  Scort- 
Vjow  £'!/£'''  cLrolL    fhi,   sport   niaii    see  in.  , 
Jtae-ts  to  hi- tx    korritL  Crort'. 


oo  Le"t  -n-Lt.   si.t'a.n.d.  o/tt^p  uxy  ftlL^ 
Soft.  oaiK.t.cLcsin.aL  6-aiiks  of  Kit-L; 
Wte-p  fortfiL   b-a-6-ts  cuh.o  La>  so  stiU_ 
0/v(l)    a-TLrc\t£..'s    -^ea.vt  Ccuvft,g_l  ,  ■" 

TKta  pctyidLTiVaH  ,  so  oicL  and  gray, 
•^s  lit  sKarpEiAs  Kis  kaift  aaclilut£ai-sf  all  just, 
tit  uiouUl  (uityour  cl£a\-iK.roat"  I'a  a.  sort  of  a  urau' 
"7iu.t  Kis  Ivto-rtT — OK.,dot£iia£r  H  (rrtakma  <vt  Lotiti 


Von  Tirpitz. 

[55] 


THE  Junker  Pirates,  having  filled  the  sea  with 
little  lost  children,  torpedoed  a  hospital  ship 
and  sent  dow^n  into  the  deep  a  score  of  Red  Cross 
nurses  to  keep  them  company. 


On  the  sinking  of  a  hospital  ship. 

[56] 


IN  the  face  of  a  sea  campaign  of  "Frightful- 
ness,  "  Von  Jagow  came  out  with  a  statement 
that  "Piracy  no  longer  exists."  But  something 
just  as  good  was  "made  in  Germany." 


«1»!!i«ISSS£^Vi^^. 


"Pirates  and  Privateers  no   longer  exist." — Von  Jagow. 


IN  a  safe  of  one  Von  Igel  -were  found  documents 
of  the  most  incriminating  nature.  Count  Von 
Bernstorff  was  given  opportunity  to  claim  them  as 
official  papers  if  he  so  desired. 


"Well,  Count,  do  you  claim  it?' 

[58] 


JUNKER  impudence  in  the  German  Embassy  at 
Washington  had  reached  its  highest  point. 
Even  Count  Von  Bernstorff  reahzed  that  he  had 
gone  the  very  Hmit  vv^ith  our  State  Department. 


1^  GERi^^^f 


The  Kaiser's  Colonial  Secretary  for  North  America. 


[59] 


WHEN  the  German  Ambassador  protested 
against  the  deportation  of  his  chief  heuten- 
ants  for  their  activities  in  plots  against  our  peace 
and  safety,  he  was  warned  that  his  own  position 
was  none  too  secure. 


"Please  observe,   Mr.  Ambassador,   that  you  are  pretty  close  to  the 
edge  yourself.  " 

[60] 


MAKING  a  virtue,  perhaps,  of  necessity,  the 
German  Government  announced,  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1916,  that  "from  now  on  it  w^ould  make  no 
forward  movement."  Events  since  have  proved 
how^  v^ell  it  reahzed  its  true  condition. 


"^^VCoW^VN 


^^^v^^'^ 


From   now  on  we  will   make  no   forward   movement." 

[61] 


IN  June,  1916,  Wilhelm  II,  peering  out  from  be- 
hind Heligoland,  where  his  ships  had  rusted  for 
tvv^o  years,  declared  himself  "Admiral  of  the  At- 
lantic." 


'Admiral  of  the  Atlantic." 

[62] 


THE  "Deutschland,"  a  cargo  submersible  craft, 
sent  over  for  reasons  best  known  to  the  Ger- 
man Admiralty,  was  extremely  mysterious  as  to 
her  cargo  for  the  return  trip. 


Assorted  cargo   for  the  return   trip  of  the  Deutschland. 

[63] 


IT  was  stated  in  a  cable  from  Amsterdam,  that, 
by  the  Kaiser's  direct  personal  order,  issued 
about  three  weeks  after  the  first  attack  on  Verdun, 
to  the  Court  painter,  a  great  historical  painting 
w^as  to  be  made,  called  "The  Triumph  of  the 
Hohenzollerns."  Accordingly  the  painter,  w^ith 
costumes,  horses,  models,  and  a  corps  of  photog- 
raphers and  assistants,  mobilized  his  forces  on  an 
eminence  overlooking  Verdun. 


Triumph  of  the    HohenzoUerns  at  Verdun. 

[64] 


JUNKERDOM  could  never  understand  why  all 
German-born  American  citizens,  or  American 
citizens  of  German  blood  did  not  immediately  rally 
to  the  flag  of  Germany  against  the  forces  fighting 
for  the  liberty  of  the  world. 


Those   disappointing  German-Americans. 

[65] 


GERMANY  was  ready  to  talk  about  restricting 
"U"  boat  activity  as  long  as  we  w^ould  listen 
to  her;  but  the  sound  of  riveting  machines  in  her 
shipyards  v^as  her  real  answer. 


Preparing  a   few  more   answers   to   our  protests. 

[663 


WHILE  Von  Bethmann-Hollweg  was  talking 
of  Germany's  desire  for  peace  and  a  cessa- 
tion of  slaughter,  Germany  was  making  every 
preparation  for  a  renewal,  more  ruthless  than  ever, 
of  undersea  w^arfare. 


Is  anybody  being  fooled  by  this? 

[67] 


WHILE  her  soldiers  were  driving  Belgian  civil- 
ians into  slavery  in  Germany,  Von  Beth- 
mann-HolWeg  vv^as  issuing  such  beautiful  senti- 
ments as  the  following:  "Conscious  of  their 
responsibility  before  God,  before  their  ow^n  nations 
and  before  Humanity." 


A  Prussian  offer  of  Peace. 

[68] 


AN  American-German  (not  a  German-Ameri- 
can) said  in  an  interview  in  December,  1916, 
that  Germany's  Peace  Proposals  had  broken  the 
ice. 


No,  this  is  not  Eliza  crossing  on  the  ice! 

[69] 


EVERYBODY  in  the  world  had  heard  of  the 
German  Peace  Proposals,  supposed  to  have 
been  sent  out  by  the  Kaiser,  but  nobody  had  been 
allowed  to  see  them. 


Maybe  somebody  wants  to  buy  a  little  suckling  pig,  eh? 


THE  Kaiser  and  Von  Tirpitz  were  much  happier 
in  announcing  a  new  campaign  of  Intensive 
Frightfulness  than  w^hen  endorsing  the  hypocritical 
peace  proposals  of  Von   Bethinann  HolWeg. 


Bringing  the  flag  up  to  date! 

[711 


THE   retreat    of   the    German    Army    in    north- 
eastern France  will  be  remembered  as  one  of 
the  blackest  pages  in  Junker  history. 

It  stirred  the  indignation  of  the  whole  w^orld. 


A  survival  of  the  dark  ages. 

[72] 


BLINDED  by  the  glitter  of  fifty  years  of  mili- 
tarism, the  German  peasant  now  finds  himself 
the  bearer  of  a  crushing  burden. 

His  case  is  not  helped  by  the  diplomacy  which 
guides  him. 


Germany. 


[73] 


ON  February  I  st  the  German  Admiralty  with 
the  utmost  deHberation  raised  the  black  flag 
of  piracy  against  the  entire  world,  declaring  that  all 
vessels  of  w^hatever  description  -would  be  sunk  on 
sight  if  they  approached  European  w^aters. 


^'^ 


Under  their  true  flag. 

[74] 


BY  the  end  of  February,  1917,  the  President  and 
the  people  of  the  United  States  were  in  a  state 
of  indignatior>  that  could  not  much  longer  be  con- 
trolled. 

They  had  exchanged  "watchful"  for  "w^rathful" 
w^aiting. 


Wrathful  waiting. 

[75] 


JUNKER  impudence  finally  overreached  itself. 
When  the  United  States  was  informed  that  it 
could  send  one  ship  striped  like  a  zebra  to  Fal- 
mouth each  week,  American  patience  suddenly 
came  to  an  end. 


THE  ONLY  ANSWER: 

Kaiser:    "One  day  in  the  week  you  may  go  to  Falmouth." 
Uncle  Sam:     "Seven  days  in  the  week  you  may  go  to  !" 


U'->] 


THE  President  addressed  a  request  to  Congress 
for  po^A^er  to  arm  merchant  vessels  for  protec- 
tion against  German  piracy. 


I'm   here,   Mr.   President,   close  behina  you. 

[77] 


Two  little  children,  born  almost  under  the 
shado'w  of  the  Hall  of  Independence  in  Phila- 
delphia, vv^ere  murdered  at  sea  in  the  new  campaign 
of  "Frightfulness." 


Another  case  of  wiping  hands  on  the  American  flag. 

[7SJ 


THE  feeling  of  America  for  devasted  Belgium 
was  shown  in  the  action  of  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tain Club,  which  gave  the  million  dollars  collected 
for  a  club  house  in  New  York,  to  the  Homeless 
Belgians. 


For   homeless    Belgium. 

CTUJ 


AN  American  merchant  ship  was  sunk,  carrying 
down  a  score  of  American  sailors.  Not  a 
single  child  in  the  lot.  The  price  of  "Frightful- 
ness"  seemed  wasted. 


Shame — only  American  sailors!     Not  a  woman  or  child  in  the  lot. 


UOJ 


MANY  things  done  by  the  Germans  in  the  heat 
and  frenzy  of  w^ar  will  be  forgiven,  but  in  the 
days  and  years  to  come  the  murder  of  the  sick  and 
wounded  and  the  devoted  women  of  the  Red  Cross 
on  Hospital  ships  will  be  beyond  human  forgive- 
ness. 


Something  to  remember  after  the  War. 

181] 


MR.     CARRANZA    showed    signs    of    having 
fallen  under  strong  German  influence. 
He  seemed  inclined  to  adopt  the  goose-step  at 
Tampico. 


The  new  recruit. 

[82] 


THE  tension  in  public  feeling  was  suddenly  re- 
lieved by  the  revelations  of  a  plot  in  w^hich 
Germany  and  Mexico  were  to  offer  a  full  partner- 
ship to  Japan  in  return  for  an  attack  on  our  south- 
w^estern  border.  It  caused  a  roar  of  laughter  from 
Washington  to  Tokio  and  back. 


It  is   to  laugh. 


THROUGH  all  the  hideousness  of  war  shone  the 
light  of  the  Red  Cross.  A  fund  for  this  great 
enterprise  of  humanity  of  one  hundred  and  four- 
teen million  dollars  was  raised  in  the  United  States 
in  a  w^eek. 


HELP   HER   LIGHT   SOTO    SHINE 


Not  all  is  dark. 

t84] 


THE  Kaiser's  plan  for  "Getting  the  boys  out  of 
the  Trenches  '  in  Eastern  France  was  almost 
as  naive  as  Mr.  Henry  Ford's  plan  of  two  years 
ago,  and  much  more  effective. 


"We  are  now  getting  the  enemy  out  of  their  trenches.' 
report. 

t85] 


erman 


THE  fate  of  the  Romanoffs  must  have  been  most 
disturbing  to  the  peace  of  mind  of  the  Hohen- 
zollern  family.  The  torch  of  Liberty  arose  "Like 
Thunder"  across  the  seas. 


"Papa,  here  comes  the  light  that  killed  Uncle  Nick." 


[80] 


ENGLAND,  France,  Russia,  Italy  and  the 
United  States  recognized  that  the  Junker 
menace  to  the  world  must  be  thoroughly  crushed 
before  Peace  could  ever  return  to  the  world. 


The  Junker  must  go. 

[87] 


PRUSSIA  at  last  realized  that  the  United  States 
could  no  longer  be  cajoled.  Austria  was 
therefore  advised  to  give  up  all  pretense  of  friend- 
liness and  come  out  into  the  open  as  a  foe  to 
America. 


"Come  avay;  our  music  iss  not  for  Barbarians. 

t88] 


THE  "pacifists"  were  bending  every  endeavor  to 
induce  the  American  Government  to  bow 
down  in  craven  acquiescence  to  the  restrictions  of 
BerHn  on  Ocean  travel. 


The  Piffle  steams  under  orders   from  W.lhelmstrasse. 

[89] 


IT  was  discovered  that  German  money  "was  pay- 
ing a  great  part  of  the  expenses  of  the  Pacifist 
Party. 

The  Pacifists  were  willing  to  take  the  money, 
but  objected  to  being  found  out. 


THE  HONEY-MOON  IS  OVER. 

"He  gave  me  a  black  eye  at  Carnegie  Hall. 

[90] 


A"U"  BOAT  was  reported  at  work  off  the  Port 
of  New  York.      This  proved  of  considerable 
value  to  the  recruiting  sergeants. 


A  good  recruiting  sergeant   for  Uncle  Sam. 

fsi] 


GERMANY  set  a  trap  beautifully  baited  with 
honeyed  words  for  the  Russian  bear. 
It  looked  for  a  time  as  though  the  Bear  w^ould  be 
caught. 


Will  it  succeed? 

[92] 


THERE  seemed  to  be  a  lack  of  realization  on 
the  part  of  many  Americans  that  war  was 
actually  coming  our  w^ay  and  that  in  the  German 
programme,    "w^e  Avere  next." 


%,/' 


'Your   mother,    your   wife,    your   child   may   be    next!' 


t931 


PERHAPS  Prussia  builded  better  than  she  knew 
when  she  carved  out  a  heroic  w^ooden  figure 
to    represent    her    hero,    Von    Hindenburg. 

The  Von  Hindenburg  Line  was  constantly  near- 
ing  Berhn. 


Still  "luring  them  on. 

[91] 


UNCLE  SAM  took  command  of  one  of  the  most 
powerful  branches  of  his  Industrial  Army — 
the  Railroads,     They  swore  allegiance  to  the  Flag. 


Mobilized. 


ADMIRAL    FISKE   advocated    going   after   the 
submarines  with  hydro-aeroplanes  armed  w^ith 
torpedoes  and  guns. 

Congress  -was  urged  to  provide  a  great  fleet  of 
the  aero  craft. 


The  way  to  do  it. 


THE  Hohenzollern  family  were  beginning  to 
realize  that  the  day  of  Divine  Right  was  near- 
ing  its  end.  They  w^ere  gathering  at  the  feet  of 
"Old  Fritz"  for  their  sw^an  song. 


Rehearsing  their   swan   song. 

rs7i 


WHEN  the  Russian  loosened  his  hold  on  the 
Junker  Beast,  a  situation  loomed  up  that 
called  for  all  the  resolution  and  resourcefulness 
of  the  remaining  allies. 


Hold  Fast,  Everybody! 

[98] 


THE  United  States  Marine  Corps,  true  to  its  tra- 
ditions, was  in  the  forefront  of  Uncle  Sam's 
entrv  into  the  arena  of  the  World's  War. 


This   is   their   emblem. 

[9'J] 


o 


WHEN  France  presented  the  United  States 
■with  the  great  Statue  of  Liberty,  which 
stands  at  our  gates,  she  Httle  thought  how  pow^er- 
ful  that  symbol  of  her  friendship  w^ould  some  day 
prove. 

By  its  shining  Hght  we  now  march  to  her  aid. 


To  France! 

liooj 


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Did  bolshevism  come  to  Germany  from  Russia,  inspired  by  Lenine  and  Trotsky? 
Or  is  it  merely  the  German  form  of  the  same  political  disease  that  has  Russia  on 
its  back?  Is  it  the  enemy  of  the  old  imperialistic  spirit  of  Germany?  Or  is  it  aided 
and  abetted  by  German  imperialism  in  order  that  absolutism  may  be  restored  in 
Germany,  firmer  than  ever? 


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